We are creating a theme camp this year, and will need a lot of pillows to make a nice common space. What is a good source for getting pillows or good lounging materials? If they pack easily, that's a plus.

Thanks,MacGlenver

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Thrift stores & Craigslist. Doesn't matter if they're a bit nasty - Burners will sit pretty much on anything and a day in the dust will kill all the bugs anyway.

As for "packing easy"... dude, they're pillows. They're going to take up a lot of space and you can't burn them either, so you need to take them home or to the dump. That's two trips with them. The only way to compress them is to use something like "Space Bags" (vacuum-seal bags for clothing & pillows). Problem is, most of them require a vacuum cleaner, so it might not work for the leaving BRC part of the trip...

As far as packing them, pick up some extra large Space Bags (Target sells them among other places) and stuff 6 pillows in a bag. Then suck the air out of it and it will shrivel down to 3 inches thick. They do tend to get heavy when you have a lot of pillows in a very dense packing.

Love the nipple pillows. We're thinking of actually doing inflatable furniture instead and we've ordered a couple testers. We'll have to figure out how to keep them strapped down, and we have some concerns about durability, but it will be much more manageable than a ton of pillows (since we're limited on space in the trucks).

"just two indecisive cowboys, trying to play a word game." - piehole"Just apply intelligence and discretion and you should be able to get away with just about anything." - Ugly Dougly

what shambala said is true....last year i sent out a bean bag i had made (it was stuffed with shredded foam) and it shrunk to 1/10th original size using plastic and a shop vac...once its shrunk, duct tape the fuck out of it...

Eric wrote: The only way to compress them is to use something like "Space Bags" (vacuum-seal bags for clothing & pillows). Problem is, most of them require a vacuum cleaner, so it might not work for the leaving BRC part of the trip...

You can use the "roll out most of the air, then seal" to get them tighter than they would be.

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Eric wrote: The only way to compress them is to use something like "Space Bags" (vacuum-seal bags for clothing & pillows). Problem is, most of them require a vacuum cleaner, so it might not work for the leaving BRC part of the trip...

You can use the "roll out most of the air, then seal" to get them tighter than they would be.

They actually make a style designed to be roll-vacuumed (new word!), but they are incredibly hard to find anymore. I've been using them for years to keep my outfits in: pull out what I want, roll it back up and the rest stay mostly dust free. With heavy fabrics even those can get tough to roll, I can't imagine trying to roll pillows.

My two concerns with he vacuum bags are that we won't have anything beyond some some basic air pumps so we won't be able to recompress the pillows on the way home. Also I think the type of pillows that would be good for lounging would be too dense to benefit from the vacuum bags because they won't compress well.

Any thoughts on the inflatable furniture?

"just two indecisive cowboys, trying to play a word game." - piehole"Just apply intelligence and discretion and you should be able to get away with just about anything." - Ugly Dougly

Yup. A local hardware store here sells vacu-bag systems that use a small, hand-held, manual pump rather than an electric one, so you can, uh, ensmallen your stuff small before you go and again before you return.

If you want drama to stop following you everywhere, try letting go of the leash.

we did a chill lounge in 2005, and needed hundreds of pillows. Transporting them was no problem, because we had an art car enclosed trailer with plenty of open volume for light pillows...but no one had time to find/make/steal them all.

So we simply added 5 pillows each as part of the camp dues (in addition to alcohol for bar, etc) - then each person only had to make/buy/steal 5

The real problem was what to do with 250 playa-fied pillows afterwards...